Richard Heinzel
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| Born | 17 January 1878 |
| Died | 3 November 1938 (aged 33) Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Nationality | Austrian |
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| Discipline | Germanic studies |
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Richard Heinzel (3 November 1838, in Capodistira – 4 April 1905, in Vienna) was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Biography
[edit]Richard Heinzel studied classical and German philology at the University of Vienna, where his instructors were Franz Pfeiffer and Johannes Vahlen. From 1860 to 1864 he worked as a school teacher at gymnasiums in Trieste, Linz and Vienna, and in 1868 became a professor at the University of Graz. In 1873 he succeeded Wilhelm Scherer as professor of German language and literature at the University of Vienna. In 1874 he became a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.[1][2]
Selected works
[edit]- Heinrich von Melk (as editor, 1867) – On Heinrich von Melk.
- Geschichte der niederfränkischen geschäftssprache, 1874 – History of the Lower Franconian language.
- Wortschatz und Sprachformen der wiener Notker-Handschrift, 1875 – Vocabulary and language forms of the Viennese Notker manuscript.
- Über den stil der altgermanischen poesie, 1875 – On the style of Old German poetry.
- Notkers Psalmen nach der Wiener handschrift, with Wilhelm Scherer, 1876 – Notker's psalms; according to the Viennese manuscript.
- Über die endsilben der altnordsichen sprache, 1877 – On the final syllables of Old Norse language.
- Ueber die Hervararsaga, 1877 – On the Hervarar saga.
- Beschreibung der isländischen Saga, 1881 – Description of the Icelandic saga.
- Ueber die Walthersage, 1889 – On the Walther saga.
- Über die ostgothische Heldensage, 1889 – On the East Gothic hero saga.
- Deutsche studien. I. und II, with Wilhelm Scherer (2nd edition, 1891) – German studies.
- Über die französischen Gralromane, 1891 – On the French grail novel.
- Über Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival, 1893 – On Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.
- Beschreibung des geistlichen Schauspiels im deutschen Mittelalter, 1898 – Description of the spiritual drama in the German Middle Ages.[3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Heinzel, Richard In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3, S. 450.
- ^ Heinzel, Richard Austria-Forum
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
